Thursday, February 25, 2010
Annie Dillard
"I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aged and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I have come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them..."
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Ev-- your words are beautiful and delicate, full of the 'ache' of life's questions that seem to come so easily when holding hands with the destitute. your words have unwrapped them for me and given me cause to pick them up with dull and calloused hands. thank you. keep writing and reminding. . .
love from poland
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